Report: Court Orders State Department Release Clinton Emails on Benghazi

May 5, 2017

With her defeat in the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton likely thought her troubles involving the Benghazi terrorist attack were behind her.

But despite Crooked Hillary’s best efforts, the American people will finally get to the truth regarding Benghazi, and the Obama administration’s outrageous lies about the terror attack.

Judicial Watch has just announced that a federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of State to turn over Hillary Clinton’s emails detailing the Obama administration’s response to the Benghazi Islamic terrorist attack:

From Judicial Watch:

Judicial Watch today announced that U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson has ordered the U.S. Department of State to turn over to Judicial Watch “eight identical paragraphs” of previously redact material in two September 13, 2012, Hillary Clinton emails regarding phone calls made by President Barack Obama to Egyptian and Libyan leaders immediately following the terrorist attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi.  Both emails had the subject line “Quick Summary of POTUS Calls to Presidents of Libya and Egypt” and were among the emails stored on Clinton’s unofficial email server.  Judge Jackson reviewed the documents directly and rejected the government’s contention that the records had been properly withheld under the FOIA B(5) “deliberative process” exemption.

Judge Jackson ruled:  “the two records, even if just barely predecisional, are not deliberative. [The State Department] has pointed to very little to support its characterization of these two records as deliberative, and the Court’s in camera review of the documents reveals that they do not fall within that category.”

The State Department had claimed that a “mistake” was the reason the emails were incorrectly labeled classified and exempt from FOIA requests, however Judicial Watch argues “that the failure was not a mistake, but instead was part of a deliberate effort by the State Department to protect Clinton and the agency by avoiding identifying emails on Clinton’s unofficial, non-secure email server as classified.”

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton blasted the State Department’s repeated stonewalling on turning over Benghazi-related documents:

One has to wonder what the State and Justice Departments are trying to hide regarding the aftermath of the Benghazi attack. If nothing nefarious happened, then the government should be happy to turn over any and all related documents, but their continued refusal to cooperate only raises more questions.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Clinton emails revealed that her own daughter, Chelsea was calling the incident a terrorist attack, even though the administration was blaming the attack on a “video.” There are still so many questions about what the administration knew and why they provided little to any protection to our personnel in Benghazi.

Hopefully President Trump will get to the bottom of this attack and coverup, and provide justice for the families who lost their loved ones.

What do you think these new emails will show? Will Hillary Clinton be implicated in a coverup? Share your thoughts below! 

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